In the US you can order Mark Steyn's book here and orders can be shipped to the UK, if not from Amazon then try Mark's own bookstore.

It has cartoons by me and was a fun project to be involved in. It is also a hugely entertaining and informative read and, although I might be slightly biased, I think this is going to be this summer's must-read climate tome!

Unless I was looking at the wrong site, Amazon does not yet have any reviews on Mark's book. Rather surprising... I figured at least half a dozen warmists would have given it a review Loooong before it actually came out!

Is it ok to use this thread to ask how this case is proceeding? It seems *somewhat implausible* that what should be a straightforward case still hasn't been heard to completion. It must simply be an amazing coincidence that said case happens to involve Michael Mann, the world's most contentious 'science' graph and that a negative result for Mann could blow the entire climate debate to pieces.

It is hard to put the book down and even harder not to read out the quotes to anyone passing by. My favourite is from Jonathan Jones: "Do I expect you to publicly denounce the hockey stick as obvious drivel? Well yes..."

Prices are a bit steep but I suspect that when I can steel myself to buy the Kindle edition that will be the most profitable for the author. We may not need the book but he probably needs/will need the money.

I do hope that the book includes quotes not just from sceptical scientists but also from Mann's own colleagues, such as the Barnett one on that page, "His statistics were suspect as i remember. for instance, i seem to remember he used, say, 4 EOFs as predictors. But he prescreened them and threw one away because it was not useful..."

Simon Tett: "I don't think we can say we didn't do Mann et al because we think it is crap!"

Douglas Maraun " I think, that "our" reaction on the errors found in Mike Mann's work were not especially honest."

Rob Wilson: "There has been criticism by Macintyre of Mann's sole reliance on RE, and I am now starting to believe the accusations."

I see from Steve Milloy's tweets that some of these are in there, such as Phil Jones "you're on very dodgy ground" and Briffa "I am sick to death of Mann stating his reconstruction represents the tropical area ..."and Wigley "At the very least MBH is a very sloppy piece of work"

Would a pathologist determine anything unusual in the brain ring growth of pathological climate scientists? Differences in density or darkness due to CO2's diminishing threat attacking their logic functions, or wallets maybe?

Or is it the rest of the world's logic functions and wallets that remain under attack by pathological climate scientists?

Is this a new book, or is Mark trying to py his legal bills by putting new covers on his remainders?

In 2013 the Daily Kos reported :

Steyn's Peer-Review of Mann Backfires

Mark Steyn is a conservative pundit along the lines of Rush Limbaugh (frequently filling in for Rush on the radio) who has taken it upon himself to make Dr. Michael Mann's life unpleasant. Dr. Mann is a leading climate expert who spurred deniers' ire after his graph showing the unnatural rise in present temperatures was used in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." Since then, Dr. Mann has been the prime target of the climate deniers' Serengeti Strategy, a fact he talks about in his book, "Hockey Stick and Climate Wars."

Steyn's vendetta began a few years ago, when Steyn quoted a particularly offensive attack on Dr. Mann and labeled Mann’s scientific work as fraudulent. Dr. Mann fought back by suing Steyn for defamation on the grounds that that his work is demonstrably not fraudulent and that any insinuation to that effect is harmful to his career.

Most people would refrain from adding fuel to the fire if being sued by someone for attacking them. Steyn, however, is not most people. He's now self-published a book that is supposedly a collection of criticisms of Dr. Mann by other scientists. Apparently, this is Steyn’s attempt to bolster his case by showing that it is not just conservative pundits and paid spokespeople who think poorly of Dr. Mann and his hockey stick.

Steyn chose three quotes as promo material to represent the book's contents, which were all put under the microscope by Greg Laden. Laden finds that one of the scientists has recently co-authored a paper confirming Mann's hockey stick graph, and notes that his quote only appears damning because it lacks all context. A second has worked on a major paper that also confirmed Mann's hockey stick graph, and when contacted by Laden stated that the attacks on Mann "have no justification." The third quote is from a physicist who doesn't work on climate change, so he can't accurately be described as one of Mann's scientific peers.

For all his quote mining, it seems like the best Steyn could do when it came to finding criticisms from Mann's peers is write up two quotes from scientists who agree with Mann's findings and one from someone who's not a climate scientist at all. Looks like Steyn's efforts here fall as flat as the handle on Mann's hockey stick."

But I liked their limp denunciation so much we use it in the promotional materials:

http://www.steynstore.com/product133.html

Still, if it helps you, sweetie, feel free to push it back two years and pretend it's from 2013. Mann pushed that lone Gaspé tree-ring back and pretends it started in 1400 and no one seems to have minded.

No need for pushback either: the weight of the scientific evidence is enormous and ever growing :

The problem now , as in 2013 is pseudoskeptics spouting scientific nonsense, mark included, are dim-wittedly reinforcing the case made by our wannbe policy masters in UNEP and the EU.

Mark continues to play into their hands by failing to do his scientific homeework: the other snowshow just fell on his efforts to re-re write palaeoclimate history with not one but four papers corroberatng the tree ring record with ever better gephys results :

M.G.L. Baillie, and J. McAneney, "Tree ring effects and ice core acidities clarify the volcanic record of the first millennium", Climate of the Past, vol. 11, pp. 105-114, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-105-2015

I'll say this for Russell, he doesn't know when he's beaten, a bit like the average Liverpool fan. Don't worry about Mark's legal bills Russell, they are being crowd-funded in part by many little people who don't like being lied to from authority and lawyers who work pro bono to protect freedom of expression.

Just published, http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/08/11/a-review-of-steyns-scathing-new-book-about-michael-mann-a-disgrace-to-the-profession/

He discounts the opinions of others who are not “climate scientists” while not a “climate scientist” himself; why should his opinion have greater weight than other non-“climate scientists”?

Having seen his site, I cannot have any regard for him, as he lauds a lady (can’t remember her name – Lizzie Borden, perhaps?) speaking at the Nobel Institute who advocated murdering those who disagree with her – which her audience ecstatically applauded. The disgust I expressed at such a philosophy while I shredded her arguments – as well as those who rallied to support her – earned me a banning off his site. A victory, in my book. Even when he is talking about his own speciality, he shows remarkable petulance when others do not fall at his feet in wonderment at his genius. To sum up: to use him as support for your argument shows you are truly scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Great news. One day, the apercu of John Brignell that putting climate in front of scientist is like putting witch in front of doctor will be in common parlance. Harsh on the decent practitioners, but they, we are told, are in a tiny minority. 3% perhaps?

The trouble I have with this book title is that in reality Mann's' poor professional and personal pratice is not "A Disgrace to the Profession" but normal even rewarded and celebrated with the profession of climate 'science 'True he takes it to an extreme level , which is partly why so many on his own side cannot stand him, but much of what he does is typical of his profession.

When the profession is selling snake oil , then lying is the norm not the exception.

Any chance that The Hockey Stick Illusion by AW Montford could be reprinted with lots of Josh cartoons? Climate scientists may need a good laugh before the end of the year, but they can wait, having had a laugh at the rest of the world for 20 years.

Is there a way to purchase this book via a Paypal account? I’m currently unable to use my bank account to purchase anything due to some mess with fraudulent charges (last I checked, I’m ~$200 in the hole because of them), and my only other alternative at the moment is Paypal. As far as I can see though, there’s no way to use that. Mark Steyn’s site doesn’t seem to offer it as a payment option, and Amazon never has.

golf charlie - Amazon may not be shipping the book yet - indeed they'll no longer let anyone write a review until they do - but those of us who ordered directly from SteynOnline started receiving ours this past weekend, so it's conceivable that if Russell bought one directly he might have it. But I'm not betting on it.